Containerisation Contracts in Cheshire

Containerization
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Containerisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Containerisation over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 45 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 29 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.74% 1.64% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 1.91% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 3
10th Percentile £308 £416 £475
25th Percentile £358 £445 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -19.09% +6.02%
75th Percentile £537 £463 £558
90th Percentile £650 £501 £562
North West median daily rate £500 £493 £588
% change year-on-year +1.42% -16.09% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Containerisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 563 418 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.99% 85.48% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 280 227
10th Percentile £306 £311 £283
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £648 £643 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.16
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £39.15
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £34.61 £30.76
% change year-on-year -21.98% +12.52% +38.91%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Containerisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Containerisation in Cheshire

Containerisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Containerisation in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Containerisation in Cheshire

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Cheshire

Containerisation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Containerisation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -5 17 £358 -19.55% 8
Macclesfield - 8 £600 -
Chester - 2 £675 - 7
Containerisation
North West

Containerisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) IIS
1 2 (6.90%) iPlanet
1 2 (6.90%) JBoss
1 2 (6.90%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.90%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.45%) Camunda
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Mule
2 1 (3.45%) Mule ESB
2 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.45%) Finacle
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) OpenShift
3 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) IaaS
3 6 (20.69%) PaaS
3 6 (20.69%) SaaS
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.79%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.79%) Azure AI
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Google Gemini
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.79%) Neo4j
3 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
4 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Git
2 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (6.90%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Pharmaceutical
3 8 (27.59%) Banking
4 6 (20.69%) Legal
5 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
7 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Lead
3 6 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Architect
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Solution Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Information Architect
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Java Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Node.js
2 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
3 7 (24.14%) Kafka
4 5 (17.24%) RESTful
5 4 (13.79%) PyTorch
5 4 (13.79%) Spring
5 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
5 4 (13.79%) Streamlit
5 4 (13.79%) TensorFlow
6 3 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (10.34%) REST
7 2 (6.90%) CSS
7 2 (6.90%) CSS3
7 2 (6.90%) HTML
7 2 (6.90%) HTML5
7 2 (6.90%) JMS
7 2 (6.90%) LDAP
7 2 (6.90%) OAuth
7 2 (6.90%) OpenID
7 2 (6.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Algorithms
1 6 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Data Fabric
3 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (3.45%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Windows
3 4 (13.79%) Unix
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Agile
1 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 13 (44.83%) SDLC
3 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) Microservices
5 7 (24.14%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
5 7 (24.14%) Observability
6 6 (20.69%) ETL
6 6 (20.69%) Generative AI
6 6 (20.69%) LLM
6 6 (20.69%) Natural Language Processing
7 5 (17.24%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (13.79%) Business Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
8 4 (13.79%) Pattern Recognition
8 4 (13.79%) RDF
8 4 (13.79%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) PHP
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Scala
5 2 (6.90%) Groovy
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) Korn
6 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO 20022
1 2 (6.90%) PSD2
1 2 (6.90%) QA
1 2 (6.90%) SEPA
2 1 (3.45%) GMP
System Software
1 22 (75.86%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (24.14%) Grafana
3 3 (10.34%) Terraform
4 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.90%) CA Wily
4 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.90%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Oracle
2 10 (34.48%) AppDynamics
3 4 (13.79%) Splunk
4 2 (6.90%) Broadcom
4 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.90%) IBM
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Ariba
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.45%) VMware